Finding an Object Lost in Layers
In a complex design containing multiple layers and sub-layers, sometimes it can be difficult to find an individual object in the Layers palette. To quickly ...
So Many Glyphs, So Little Time
The Glyphs palette (Window > Type & Tables > Glyphs) is great way to find any particular character in a type face. You just scroll ...
Font Names Are Greek to Me
Some of my freelance is for a large international corporation with offices around the world. So it’s quite common that my work in Illustrator may ...
Type and Link without Missing a Beat
You’re doing some writing in InDesign and you’re getting close to the bottom of your page. Thinking ahead, you decide to create your next page ...
Measurements Do Not Account for Strokes
Because so much of what you can do in Illustrator is vector plus effects, a stroke around an object is considered to be just another ...
Deleting All Guides on a Spreads
In tip a while back, I described a way to quickly delete all Ruler Guides on a Spread by going to the Layers menu > ...
Navigating Your Way to a Perfect View
One way to zoom in for a close-up view of a design is to marquee across the document with the Zoom tool. But there is ...
Selecting Some, But Not All, Text.
Selecting all text in a Frame is easy. With your I-bar cursor active in your text, press Command + A (Control + A on PC). ...